⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - UK government expands its food supply resilience team citing "catastrophic events," a week after the Cabinet Office readied a campaign to prepare British households to stock tinned food and bottled water against extreme weather and potential hostile state attacks.

⚡️📈 NEW - Diesel jumped to its highest price in history yesterday

⚡️🚨 NEW - For the first time in recorded history, people 65 and older outnumber children 5 and under worldwide — 852 million versus fewer. By 2060, the 65+ population hits 2 billion, accounting for 55% of all global population growth. The driver is simple: fertility has collapsed below replacement in countries representing 71% of the world's population, up from 45% a decade ago. South Korea is projected to be the oldest country by 2060 with 41% over 65. The world's age pyramid is flattening into a column.

⚡️🇺🇸 WATCH - 🇺🇸 US national debt has surged over 170% since 2011 2011: $14.79T 2012: $16.06T 2013: $16.73T 2014: $17.82T 2015: $18.15T 2016: $19.57T 2017: $20.24T 2018: $21.51T 2019: $22.71T 2020: $26.94T 2021: $28.43T 2022: $30.93T 2023: $33.17T 2024: $35.46T 2025: $37.64T​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 2026: $40.13T (currently)

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump hosted Hasidic rebbes and a Litvish rosh yeshiva in the Oval Office for a pre-Rosh Hashanah meeting — described as the first such gathering in over 50 years. Both rival Satmar brothers attended and exchanged greetings for the first time in decades. Trump asked if they were twins. The guest list included leaders of Satmar, Skver, Bobov, Vizhnitz, and Lakewood's Beth Medrash Govoha. Expected topics included defending Haredi educational independence from New York state oversight.

⚡️🇺🇸 END OF DAY - U.S. Treasury just bought back $12.5 Billion of their own debt

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - The House passed H.R. 4795 “Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act” which outlaws schools (that participate in Title IV Pell Grants and Student Loans) from boycotting Israel (which is protected by the 1st Amendment). The act also mandates student and faculty participation in Israel.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Vance: "The reason gas prices are so high right now is because the Iranians are shooting at commercial shipping."

⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 NEW - "What is one dream you still have?" Ben-Gvir: "To encourage people to leave Gaza, by buses, planes, convoys." This man is the textbook definition of a psychopath... He thinks ONLY about ruining lives in the name of Israel.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - MapQuest hit No. 1 across all apps and games on the US App Store yesterday. The reason: it refused to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" after Trump's Aug 27 executive order. Google Maps and Apple Maps complied. Sensor Tower estimates 632,000 US downloads since the order, that accounts for 56% of MapQuest's US downloads this year.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - New METRO 2039 gameplay trailer The game looks amazing out Feb 4th, 2027

⚡️📱 TECH - Apple is adding “iPhone Handoff” feature to iOS 27 It lets you use the same phone number across TWO iPhones and seamlessly switch between them. - Main iPhone keeps the primary eSIM - Second iPhone gets a companion eSIM - Same number on both iPhone - Switch between them anytime - Cellular settings stay on the main iPhone Both iPhones need iOS 27 and carrier support is required. This could be HUGE for people with two iPhones.

⚡️📈 NEW - Bitcoin reclaims $80,000

⚡️💬 NEW - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: For every 38,000 ChatGPT queries, that is the same amount of water that is used in the production of a single almond in California.

⚡️🇻🇪🇺🇸 NEW - Maria Corina Machado breaks her silence on Trump's Venezuela oil deal—sharply criticizing how it was struck while being careful not to attack Trump or the idea of US access to Venezuelan oil. Also “The enemies of the United States in Venezuela are today in Miraflores.”

⚡️🚨 NEW - Several major AI services are having problems at the same time today. ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, and Claude are all seeing outages or errors, with users reporting issues accessing the services.

⚡️🇮🇱🇮🇷 NEW - Netanyahu on Iran: I am convinced of our ability to remove this threat once and for all, which is to say, to topple this regime. This is the central mission that still lies before us, but it is close. It is not impossible; it is within reach. They do not avoid attacking us for no reason. They attack everyone, just not us. They know our strength, the might of our arm, and our determination. I say to our enemies in general: do not mess with us. If you have learned anything, do not mess with us.

⚡️🚨 NEW - U.S. Treasury is forecasted to buy back $12.5 Billion of their own debt today

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Terrorist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: "We’re back to the days when Netanyahu doesn’t want to be photographed with me."

⚡️💬 NEW - Vivek Ramaswamy: The anti-semitism that is now spreading across our country is not just an attack on Jewish people. It is an attack on the idea of capitalism.